Samsung 950 PRO NVMe SSD Disk Ubuntu Linux 16.04
Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 SSD NVMe


Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Intel 530 120GB SSD: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

phoronix comparsion test: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.30GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS RAMPAGE V EXTREME, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 8 x 8192 MB 2400MHz, Disk: 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 + 256GB Crucial_CT256MX1, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1189/3505MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GM204 HD Audio, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 4.5.0-pf4 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.18, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: Clang 3.8.0 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 5120x1440


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 37.60 |===============================
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 35.01 |============================
Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 22.69 |==================
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 49.20 |========================================
phoronix comparsion test ...... 48.02 |=======================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 154.48 |=================================
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 117.63 |=========================
Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 91.12  |===================
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 183.19 |=======================================
phoronix comparsion test ...... 140.10 |==============================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 203.59 |=======================================
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 34.72  |=======
Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 35.69  |=======
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 167.87 |================================
phoronix comparsion test ...... 48.14  |=========


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 157.24 |============================
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 119.75 |=====================
Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 102.11 |==================
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 217.61 |=======================================
phoronix comparsion test ...... 112.19 |====================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 158.37  |===
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 490.13  |=========
Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 481.96  |=========
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 844.31  |===============
phoronix comparsion test ...... 2076.17 |======================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 846.90  |=================
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 1186.35 |========================
Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 1158.91 |=======================
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 1511.54 |==============================
phoronix comparsion test ...... 1898.97 |======================================